The correct term is "promptfondling."

I am the poster child for this. Of course I also swear and use the word "masturbate" too much...maybe that has something to do with it....

This is the actual stage we're at in the AI bubble, the "ignore empirical data in favor of my precious masturbatory fantasies" stage.

Jfc, in 2026. apnews.com/article/henr...

Re-watching Dan Da Dan with the niece, and it's really so, so charming.

Jfc this place. The culture here is just terrible in every way. Truly, this is "Karen-sky."

This is the corporate blueprint in tech for the next 2-5 years, for those of you in the field and planning to stay. The rolling layoffs will be brutal; AI will be the excuse for everything. Good luck. You will need it. x.com/jack/status/...

One of the main reasons I'm leaving tech. If you can, run away as fast as you can. (And, no, this isn't just me being an old codger. This isn't engineering, this something quite tawdry. When it breaks, the people, not the AI, will be blamed. Keep that in mind as well.)

Why does this technology even exist? What are people using it for? What purpose does a SAAS service like this even serve? Why am I the only one seemingly asking this question?

How does Newton remain in good stead with the tech press? Like...how?

The future of jobs? No jobs! The market loves it! Number go up! Economy is humming!

It's hilarious watching America become the absolute most miserable place in the developed world to live, a place where one is fucked over in every interaction, and to have not **a single member** of the ruling class lift a finger to change this. Nice job there, America. You deserve this.

Yes, it's really important to see that these -- let me be politic here -- mentally ill freaks are engaging in a purposeful anthropomorphizing of their precious synthetic text extruders. This is being done on purpose by these should-be-mental-patients.

Lol. I love the accompanying picture.

She also shouldn't have a fucking job: "Summer Yue may work on safety and alignment on Meta’s superintelligence team, but even she admits she isn’t immune to overconfidence when it comes to autonomous AI agents."

Which part of the hype cycle involves involuntary admission to a mental health facility?

Lol. Sure, Jan.

What, pray tell, is the "agent adoption problem?" If you don't see that we're in the late stages of a Dotcom-like bubble then you need to open your eyes. $3MM was pissed away on this idea.* *Term used as loosely as possible.

I often quantify dumb ideas in tech by imagining their genesis: "Imagine, if you will, a middle aged man masturbating in a home office on a Tuesday afternoon." This explicates so much of what ails us. This photo singularly captures what ails tech, and America, in a way that belongs in a museum:

This isn't cute. This is mentally ill.

What was I saying about the need for mockery? Also, can we reserve a laugh for the OG fool, an idiot par excellence who is still taken seriously by other idiots after all these years, the inimitable Ray Kurzweil? Allow a chuckle and a single tear to run down your cheek for this moron's moron.

You know the revolution is fraudulent when non-things like "generative music" are touted by the likes of Google. It certainly is the case that a musician, a human, could use genai to make music, maybe. But music generated by a model isn't, in fact, music. Why are we pretending this is a thing?

What was I saying about the need for public mockery? I forget.... Anyway, this sounds like an excellent idea.

The good thing about publicly shaming Claude addicts is you can often hit a nerve, which means that public shaming still works. It's really time for broad-based public mockery of these people.

These people are mentally ill.

The future is one...without you in it, dirty proles.

Welcome to 2026, where nothing is real and nothing matters! Join the parade, because...why not? youtu.be/O-QpfLV8dQw?...

These people are no different from the old ladies at the casino pissing away their retirement at the nickel slot machines.

Tech is disintegrating, but we're inside this window where these over-advertised chuds -- and they are all useless chuds held up as ubermeschen -- can extract massive packages, be onboarded as if prize-winning show ponies, and then do...nothing. You know they just fuck around all day at work.

What are these people doing with Claude that they require this level of usage? Like what could you **possibly** be doing that would require you to be "keen" to do this? Tech right now is like Bedlam, it's an asylum. And they're just fucking around, getting nothing done! This is all so very weird.

Lol. Quinn's wrong here in saying "AWS will eventually figure out AI." No. The technology is fundamentally unreliable. It hallucinates. It always will. An unreliable technology is a technology with no future.

No it hasn't.

"AIware-centric" What?

I want an AI podcast that makes fun of AI researchers. Not like Bender and Hanna's podcast, but one where these demented chuds, people like Pedro Domingos and Nate Lambert, are actually mocked for the stupid things they say and the quality of their "research." It would need a good title tho.

Pedro Domingos is the dumbest piece of shit in computer science. He's also clearly mentally ill.

Agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents. Agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents agents.

Imagine being the “head” of a unit dedicated to a weird fantasy like “AGI,” a nebulous garbage idea only morons find titillating. This person might as well have been the head tribble breeder at the company.

The deployment of LLMs over the past three years has resulted in the comprehensive enshittification of everything. This technology, and the antisocial freaks who build this stuff, have ruined everything.

No, they don't. But they know the current discourse around AI, centred on the idea that all white collar employees will replaced with $200/mo. Claude "agents," depends on pretending there's a ghost in the shell. There isn't. "Agents" will fail. But not before Anthropic executives get rich.

Omg, they are taking that Citrini masturbatory fantasy -- that's what it was, folks -- as if it explicates the future? What is going on? It's as if everyone is insane. Also, describing Blade Runner, or its source material, like this is a whole separate category of crime. Again, wtf is happening?

"Executives planning the destruction of software devt as a profession wonder if plans will...destroy software devt as a profession." Someone page Scott Hanselman -- who, let's remember, we're all supposed to pretend isn't a big piece of shit -- to finesse this. Oh, he's the one fretting? Well....

One way you know AI is a scam is that grifters like Sarah Guo, a creature of pure, craven ambition and no talent or common sense whatsoever, are the public face of the technology.

Because business models can be retroactively fit onto businesses lacking this **core part** of what it is to be a business? Business-model-as-a-service? I think not.

The hilarious part of the corporate “fire everyone“ culture is…who is going to buy anything? I mean, the Epstein files show that we are, in fact, ruled by a cabal of pederast morons, so it makes sense they've not given a moment’s thought to consequences. But, still….

It’s obvious IQs have fallen to sub-conscious levels if anyone thinks software cos. will be killed by these scummy LLM providers. We are a nation, a business community, of fucking morons.

Gerard doing god's work and exposing the morons of the tech world. I'm so, so over these people.

Lol, no it's not. It's being used to grind hiring to a standstill, contributing greatly to the anxiety in America today. Over the next 2-4 years it will be the omni-excuse for endless layoffs, contributing to even more discontent and unrest.

It's like we're all living inside a Vandermeer story. I want to **read** a Vandermeer story, not live **inside** one. I do not wish to live inside Veniss Underground.

One thing exposed via the Epstein emails is just what dullards so many of these leading lights in fact are. Schank exposes himself as a moron here, a true individual of low intelligence. A belief like this should collapse one's reputation for all time.

Jfc, the quality of posts on this site. Also, what is with all the normie chuds posting their disgusting meals?